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šŸ‡ØšŸ‡³ Did DeepSeek lie? Probably. The Chinese-run AI company sent American tech stocks crashing after reporting it only cost ā€˜em $5.6 million to chat up to ChatGPT and all the rest. Nvidia lost $600 billion (down 17%) on Monday, the worst drop since March 2020. Turns out that was some creative math. DeepSeek spent that much training its V3 model but has invested $500 million in its tech since 2023. For the record, thatā€™s still pretty low compared to U.S. companies, which spent upwards of $50 billion. ICYMI, hereā€™s more about DeepSeek.

Picture this: DeepSeek says its AI image generator is better than DALL-E 3 and Stable Diffusion. It used 72 million AI images, along with a crapload of real-world data, to train Janus-Pro-7B. I donā€™t think itā€™s that great. Try it here on a phone or computer you donā€™t use all the time. Thereā€™s no telling what the Chinese are doing in the background.

Bet heā€™s a peach to be around right now: Mark Zuckerbergā€™s got four ā€œwar roomsā€ going at Meta HQ to figure out DeepSeekā€™s secrets. Two teams are focused on training and operating costs; the other two are digging into how the data might level up Metaā€™s next Llama model. Think about this: All the U.S.-based AI companies just got a kick in the butt to do better.

Last laugh: Trolls helped Amy Schumer figure out she has Cushingā€™s syndrome. The condition makes your body produce too much cortisol (the stress hormone), causing facial swelling known as ā€œmoon face.ā€ Guess online haters are good for something.

RadioShack lives: The last store closed in 2017, but the electronics retailerā€™s back online selling SD cards for dirt cheap. Donā€™t let nostalgia fool you; that 32GB card for under $6 is as outdated as RadioShack itself and runs at a slow 10MB/s. Faster cards (30MB/s) are $19. Hereā€™s a better option on Amazon for $20.

Swatting spree: Youā€™re sitting at home when the SWAT team rushes in, convinced someone inside just committed murder and has explosives set up. A 23-year-old in Wisconsin, along with another guy, hacked into the familyā€™s Ring camera and called the cops with that story. Once police arrived, they livestreamed it all. One of them is already serving 17 years in prison. If you have a Ring camera, turn on 2FA.

šŸ‘Øā€šŸ‘©ā€šŸ‘§ā€šŸ‘¦ Chosen family: This number surprised me: About 27% of folks are estranged from their families. So sad. Enter the 11,000-member Facebook group Surrogate Grandparents USA. Donna Skora, a retired paralegal in Florida, started it in 2015. Folks can post ads or respond to othersā€™ requests for surrogate grandparents. Itā€™s helped people like Karen Tautges Malinak, a goat farmer in Minnesota whoā€™s lost touch with her daughters.

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